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Recent Examples of unpleasantness
This is why people use chasers after taking shots, to distract themselves from the unpleasantness of alcohol’s fire.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2025
And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.
—Sal Vaglica, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Retrograde Mercury picks a fight with Uranus, ruler of weirdness, provoking an eruption of unexpected unpleasantness in your life, and then the Sun partners up with Mercury in a temporary flare of stubborn self-delusion.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
The big picture: No entrepreneur enjoys fundraising, but there's a special unpleasantness for generative AI founders who need billions of dollars to train their models.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2025
And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.
—Sal Vaglica, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Retrograde Mercury picks a fight with Uranus, ruler of weirdness, provoking an eruption of unexpected unpleasantness in your life, and then the Sun partners up with Mercury in a temporary flare of stubborn self-delusion.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
The big picture: No entrepreneur enjoys fundraising, but there's a special unpleasantness for generative AI founders who need billions of dollars to train their models.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantness
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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Yordan Alvarez’s name lives in infamy even though Josh Fields proved quite effective in a Dodgers uniform.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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That might have been the number that burned into infamy in South Florida sports history.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Used across sectors and product categories, the substances are often found in cookware, firefighting foams, food packaging and apparel and footwear for waterproofing and oil repellency.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
16 July 2025
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But to Muzio’s point, terrestrial birds use water repellency, too.—
Ian Rose,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 June 2025
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On August 3, 2014, Daesh launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Vietnam War was lost after squandering more than $1 trillion in current dollars, and suffering more than 55,000 American military deaths, millions of Vietnamese casualties, the My Lai massacre, napalm girl and countless other atrocities.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
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“Unpleasantness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantness. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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